What is good everybody, I decided I needed to get at least one more chapter out before friday cause I have a TON of crap to do, School sadly comes first, because I have a field trip on friday to Chicago, then the day after, I have to perform in front of a couple judges at 8:00 and I am in a musical production so I have rehearsals for that as well. This chapter will cover both the Forever Fall bit and a bit of the White Fang part (I don't remember what they called it)

Anyways...with that being said...LETS GET ON WITH IT!

Beacon Academy entrance (this is right before they go to Forever Fall)

Teams RWBY, JNPR, and CRDL, were busy getting geared up for the trip to Forever Fall

"Pyrrha, I need to speak with you for a moment" Jarryd said to the red-headed girl.

"Of course Jarryd, what do you need?" Pyrrha asked in reply.

"It's about Jaune…" At the mere mention of the name of her team leader, the four-time tournament champion scowled as Jarryd continued "I know what's going on...I overheard you two on the roof". Now, Pyrrha was shocked, worried that Jarryd might have told a higher up. "Don't worry, I haven't told anyone, after you left, I had a small chat of my own with the guy" the former pirate reassured her.

"What did you say to him?" Pyrrha looked towards Jarryd for a straight answer.

"I told him straight and simple that he can't do everything on his own, nobody can, i'm just hoping that I somewhat got through to him" he answered as they both looked to see Jaune being put in a headlock by Cardin, a scowl coming to Jarryds face as he looked on.

"Attention everyone! we are now leaving for Forever Fall!" Yelled Professor Goodwitch to the three teams.

"Well...I should probably get back to my team...talk to you later Pyrrha" The buccaneer said as he walked back to his team.

"Thank you...Jarryd" Pyrrha whispered to herself, while watching Ruby talk to Jarryd as they started walking outside the academy, noticing a slight blush on the former pirates face as he was walking beside the young girl 'does Jarryd have a crush on Ruby? Now that I look at it, they look cute together' Pyrrha thought before she as well walked beside Ren and Nora, Jaune being forced to stay by Cardin.

Forever Fall

"Yes students, the forest of Forever Fall is indeed beautiful" Professor Goodwitch told the three teams as Ruby was looking at the red trees as they were the most beautiful thing in all of Remnant, Jarryd had chuckled at the scene slightly before Ms. Goodwitch continued "but...we are not here to sightsee" she said with an eye on Ruby "Professor Peach has asked you all to collect samples from deep inside the trees inside this forest, and I am here to make sure that none of you die while doing so." Jarryd was surprised at the calm manner at the mention of death the combat teacher had. Suddenly, Professor Goodwitch, quickly turned to them, causing everyone to stop at the sudden movement… except Jaune, who had been carrying all their supplies, kept walking and ran into the back of Cardin. Cardin turned around to give the blonde a stern look, Jaune just turned his head away and started innocently whistling "Each of you is to gather one jars worth of red sap" Goodwitch continued, as she pulled a jar of the mentioned red sap from behind her back "however...this forest is full of the creatures of Grimm, so be sure to stay by your teammates" The girls of Team RWBY all looked at each other with a smile, while Jarryd looked at Jaune, wondering if he was going to do the same, or go with Cardin "We will rendezvous back here at 4:00, have fun!" Professor Goodwitch finished as each student started heading towards their own respective team.

"Come on buddy, let's go!" Cardin said, grabbing Jaune by the shoulder as Jarryd gave him a look of sympathy before the mace wielder dragged Jaune off. Pyrrha was also looking Jaunes way as well, but quickly left to follow Ren and Nora. Jarryd soon did the same, following after his own teammates.

With Team RWBY

Jarryd had started his collecting on his first tree, right next to all his teammates.

"You looked bothered by something Jarryd" He looked to his right to see Ruby at the tree not two feet away from him, also collecting sap. Jarryd blushed at how close his leader was to him as he remembered his thoughts from the night before.

"It's nothing…" Jarryd replied in a somewhat monotone voice, the scythe wielder only chuckled.

"You are terrible at lying you know that?" Ruby stated with a smile, causing Jarryd to do the same. Before he knew it his tree was out of sap, and his jar was halfway full. The 'swashbuckler', as Ruby had called him before they left for Forever Fall, quickly moved to the tree to his left, wanting to stay close by his team leader. Then, as luck would have it his jar was quickly filled up, as Ruby had moved to the tree to his left to finish collecting her jar full. Ruby had been trying to turn the tap on the tree so the sap would come out, but the knob wouldn't budge. Deciding to help out the young girl, Jarryd placed his hand over hers, which was on the tap knob, causing both teens to blush, and with one turn, the knob had twisted.

"There, now you should be set." Jarryd said, facing Ruby, still blushing as they both let go of the tap.

"Thanks Jarryd" Ruby replied as she had turned to face her helper, also having a slight blush. They stared at each other for about 10 seconds, which to them seemed like an eternity. Then, someone made a catcall towards them.

"Yo! Rubes, Pirate-boy! get over here, we have our jars filled!" Yelled the unmistakable voice of Yang. Jarryd and Ruby finally got up, gave one last smile to each other, and walked over to the rest of the team.

With Jaune and Team CRDL

The members of Team CRDL were calmly laying on the red leaves that had fallen from the trees above. Jaune had eventually joined up with them, having to had collected all of their sap jars and 2 extras. When Jaune reached the center of the circle CRDL was sitting in, he dropped everything and collapsed.

"Great work Jauney-boy…" Cardin started "that wasn't too hard, was it? he had asked the fallen blonde, who had gone cross-eyed

"I think i'm allergic to this stuff" Jaune replied sounding a tad bit nasally.

"Great! Now Jaune, I bet you're asking, yourself 'why did my buddy Cardin ask me to collect 7 jars of sap, when there is only 5 of us?' " Cardin said, imitating what he thought Jaune would sound like.

"That's one of the many questions I have asked myself" he replied, still on the ground, he sat upright as Cardin continued.

"Well...come with me, and you'll find out" Cardin finished with a mischievous grin, as he lead Jaune and his other teammates to a cliff, overlooking the other two teams. Jaune, worried and confused, asked Cardin a simple question.

"Cardin...what's going on?"

"Payback…" was the only answer the blonde got.

"Pyrrha...and Jarryd" Jaune said as he noticed them both close by, Pyrrha filling up her jar to full, while Jarryd was simply leaning against a tree, taking a nap.

"There they are...the red-haired know-it-all and the pirate-boy who thinks he's so tough" said Cardin with anger in his voice before pulling out the box of rapier wasps that Jaune had gathered. "Ok boys...Jaune here has rounded up an entire box of rapier wasps for us, and now, we are gonna put 'em to work" Cardin finished as another member of CRDL, Russel Thrush, slapped Jaune on the back as realization hit him like a small truck. "Now, according to one of the essays you wrote for me, these guys loooove sweets, and I think it's time we taught those two a thing or 2" Cardin said, pointing at Pyrrha and Jarryd "and you are gonna do it, hit 'em with them sap!" Cardin finished before throwing the 2 extra jars of sap into Jaunes hands. "either you do that, or I have a little chat with Goodwitch, and you'll be on the first airship out of Beacon" Cardin threatened before backing away from Jaune with his team. Jaune then turned to face where Pyrrha and Jarryd both were, taking aim with one of the jars, until Jaune had had enough.

"No…" The team leader softly said before lowering the jar.

"What did you just say?" the bully asked, leaning in to make sure he had heard Jaune correctly.

" I said…..NO!" Jaune yelled as he chucked a jar of sap at Cardin, which broke upon contact with the mace wielders armour, leaving a pink stain, Cardin then laughed evilly.

"Oh...you've done it now!" Cardin said before he and his team started to wail on the scrawny blonde. "You know that wasn't smart Jauney-boy" Cardin continued as he punched Jaune straight in the face, I'll make sure you're sent back to mommy, in teeny, tiny pieces" he finished, pulling Jaune up by his collar, who had received a black eye from the previous hit.

"I...I don't care what you do to me…" Jaune had managed to get out. "but you are not messing with my friends…"

"Hah, you think talk like that scares me, you think that makes you tough, think you are a big strong man now?" Cardin said in a taunting manner as he went to hit Jaune in the face, once again, which had been blocked by Jaune's aura. Cardin yelped out in pain as he dropped Jaune and held the hand he used to hit him, who had smiled for a small moment, but had ended up being kicked in the back by Sky Lark. "Now...let's see how much of a man you really are…" Cardin said threatening Jaune, but was cut off by a loud roar coming from their right side. They had all turned to see a gigantic creature of Grimm, which was soon identified as an Ursa. The Ursa then took a swipe at Cardin, knocking him down to the ground.

"Thats a big Ursa!" one of the members of Team CRDL yelled as they ran deep into the forest, leaving Cardin and Jaune all alone. Jaune managed to get up, only to see a mace rolling towards him, he looked forward to see Cardin being looked down upon by the Ursa.

With Teams RWBY and JNPR

Everyone had heard a loud roar coming from somewhere in the forest, even Jarryd heard it, causing him to be startled awake.

"Um...what was that?" Jarryd had asked everyone, who was just as confused as he was. Then, the 3 members of Team CRDL ran out from the trees.

"URSA! URSA!" Russel had yelled while running, only to be lifted up by the collar by Yang.

"What! Where!?" She quickly asked the scared boy as he pointed behind him.

"Back there, It's got Cardin!" Russel had yelled, causing Pyrrha and Jarryd to look at each other with wide eyes.

"JAUNE!" They had yelled at the same time, Ruby, knowing she was the leader in the situation, quickly came up with something.

"Yang, you Blake, Ren and Nora go get professor Goodwitch, the rest of you are with me, we're going to save Jaune" Ruby said as everyone nodded at her plan.

With Cardin and Jaune

The Ursa had been chasing Cardin around the area non-stop, and showing no signs of taking a break. The Ursa then jumped in front of Cardins path, hitting and knocking him to the ground as Cardin silently cursed to himself. Ruby, Pyrrha, Jarryd & Weiss eventually arrived to see the ass kicking that Cardin had been on the receiving end of.

"Oh no…" Pyrrha cried out as the Ursa took a killing swipe at Cardin, which would have hit...If Jaune didn't block it with his shield at the last minute. Everyone was surprised at what they had seen, Ruby, Weiss, and Pyrrha had readied their weapons, when Jarryd put his hand out in front of them.

"Wait." He said, causing the girls to look at the buccaneer in confusion "Jaune's got this!" He finished with a smirk. Jaune had eventually slashed upwards at the Grimm with his sword, causing it to stumble backwards and punching the ground where the soldier was standing, causing Jaune to roll to the side, the beast then tried swiping at the legs, which Jaune easily hopped over, but the Ursa was prepared, knocking Jaune out of the air with its other arm. the leader of JNPR had fallen to the ground, but quickly got back up again, and charged at the creature, only to be knocked over again by the sheer force the Grimm had hit him with. Jaune then took a peek at his aura-gauge, seeing it very close to the red area, Jaune didn't have much time to think though as the Ursa charged once again, looking to end the fight. Jaune also charged at the beast, sword behind his head, ready to strike at the creature, but he didn't take into account the attack the beast had sent his way as well. Luckily, Pyrrha was able to save the day, using her semblance to move his shield over to the side where the Ursas claw was coming from. The shield blocked the attack and Jaune swung at the neck of the beast, causing it to be decapitated.

"Uhhhh….what?" Ruby said, clearly confused about what Pyrrha had just done.

"How did you-" Weiss was about to add on before she was cut off by Pyrrha.

"Well….Ruby has her speed, Jarryd has his Hydrokinesis, and you have your glyphs, my semblance is polarity" Pyrrha stated with a light smile.

"Woah...you can control poles…" Ruby replied with a slight whisper, causing Weiss to hang her head low, and Jarryd to facepalm.

"No you dolt!" The heiress quietly yelled at her leader.

"It means she has control over magnetism…" Jarryd said, having to keep in his laughter at the cute cluelessness of the young girl.

"Magnets are cool too…" replied Ruby, still in awe, as Pyrrha & Jarryd started to leave.

"Where are you two going? We need to tell them what happened" Weiss asked the two, as they turned around to answer her question

"Or…" Jarryd had started, gesturing for Pyrrha to finish his sentence for him.

"We could just keep it our little secret" Pyrrha said with cheerfulness in her voice, as they all looked at Jaune, who had sheathed his sword and walked up to Cardin, the 4 students then left the scene, going to join back up with the others, leaving Cardin and Jaune alone….again. Jaune offered his hand to Cardin, who was still on the ground, he accepted the help and allowed himself to be pulled up by the team leader.

"Holy crap Jaune." was all Cardin managed to say.

"Don't...EVER... mess with my friends and team ever again! Got it?" Jaune yelled at Cardin before walking away.

Beacon Rooftop: Night

Jaune had gone up to the roof, hoping that his message to Pyrrha went through.

"No Cardin tonight? I thought you two were 'best buds' " Pyrrha said from behind him. Jaune turned around and started speaking to his red-haired teammate

"Pyrrha...I'm sorry, I was a total jerk and a moron, you were only trying to be nice and...I had all this stupid macho stuff in my hea-"

"Jaune…" Pyrrha had cut him off "It's ok" she stated as they stared at each other, both with a smile on their face. "Your team misses their leader, you know, come on down, Ren made pancakes!" Pyrrha said walking to the entrance back into the building "No syrup though, you can thank Nora for that" she finished while laughing.

"Wait!" Jaune yelled after her, causing Pyrrha to turn around. "I know I definitely don't deserve it after everything, but would you still be willing to help me…become a better fighter!" Jaune finished while looking at the ground, then Pyrrha walked up to him with a smile, and pushed him down.

"Your stance is all wrong, your legs need to be wider and lower to the ground" Pyrrha said, pulling him off the ground. "Let's try that again" she finished with little knowledge that Jarryd had seen everything from inside the doorway back into the school, he then decided to walk back to his team's dorm. 'Mission...Accomplished' he thought in his mind in the tone of his leader's voice. He then blushed again at the thought of his leader 'Oh god, I do have a thing for her' with that thought Jarryd walked into his team's dorm, and went right to sleep.

2 months later (A/N, I wanted this to event to happen later in the school year to fit in with my plans for Jarryd)

Team RWBY had arrived in downtown Vale, the future sight of the 40th annual Vytal Festival, Weiss had taken the lead, taking in everything she had seen.

"The Vytal Festival, this is absolutely wonderful" Weiss said with a big smile on her face.

"I don't think I've ever seen you smile this much Weiss, It's kinda weirding me out." Ruby said to the White-cladded member of the team, when Jarryd added onto the comment.

"I admit, It is strange seeing you acting like this Weiss" He said, as Weiss looked back at the two with a scowl. "Annnnnd...she's back" Jarryd continued after seeing the look on the heiress's face.

"How could you not smile, a festival dedicated to the cultures of the world!" She then proceeded to list off the festival events "There will be dances, parades, a tournament, the amount of planning and organization that goes into this is simply breathtaking" Weiss finished. Yang sighed and said

"You really know how to take a good thing and make it sound boring."

"Quiet you" Weiss retaliated.

"and remind me why we are spending our afternoon at the stupid docks" Yang continued to which her younger sister plugged her nose.

"It smells like fish…" She said in a nasally voice.

"Meh, you get used to it after a while…" Jarryd stated smiling, as the docks reminded him of home. The three girls looked toward the pirate with a sweatdrop. "What?" he asked expecting a response he never got.

"Anyways...I heard that the students of Vacuo will be arriving by ship today, and as a representative of Beacon, it is my solemn duty to welcome them to this fine kingdom!" she said with a dignified manner as they kept walking. Blake then turned to her Ruby, Yang, and Jarryd and said.

"She wants to spy on them so she will have an upper hand in the tournament" She stated with a smile.

"You can't prove that!" Weiss exclaimed, trying to defend herself.

"What happened there?" Jarryd said as everyone turned to see what he was looking at, he had spotted a dust shop with police tape all over the building with 2 detectives standing outside the damaged shop. The team eventually approached the building to get a better look.

"What happened here?" the buccaneer asked the detective.

"Robbery, second dust shop hit this week." The first detective replied "place is turning into a jungle, they even left all the money!" Then the second detective spoke up.

"It just doesn't make any sense, who in the world need that much dust"

"I have no idea, you thinkin the White Fang." The first one asked

"I'm thinking we don't get paid enough" Replied detective number two. Weiss scoffed, causing her teammates to turn towards her.

"Hmph, the White Fang, what an awful bunch of degenerates" The heiress said, causing Blake to speak up.

"What's your problem?" She asked the girl in white.

"My problem? I simply don't care for the criminally insane!" Weiss retaliated.

"The White Fang are not a bunch of psychopaths, they are a collection of misguided faunus" Blake said, crossing her arms, to which Jarryd jumped into the conversation.

"Yeah, weren't they originally a peaceful protest group" Jarryd said, Blake smiled at the pirate while Weiss just ignored the comment.

"Misguided?! They want to wipe humanity off the face of the planet" Weiss replied defending her claim.

"Then they are very misguided." Blake said, also defending her previous statements "Either way, it doesn't explain why they would rob a dust shop, in the middle of downtown Vale!"

"She has a point, besides, the police never caught that Torchwick guy I ran into a few months ago, maybe it was him." Ruby commented, to which Jarryd was shocked, whenever he had docked at a major city in the past, there were wanted posters of Roman Torchwick everywhere! Jarryd decided to ask her about it later.

"That still doesn't change the fact that the White Fang are a bunch of Faunus who only know how to lie, cheat and steal" Weiss retorted, bringing them back to the original subject.

"Not necessarily true" Yang commented, and would have continued until they heard a random cry.

"Hey, stop that Faunus!" The team heard an unknown person yell. They all looked around to see a couple of men chasing after a boy with blonde hair, a white shirt, blue jeans and a monkey tail on a boat.

"Thanks for the ride guys!" The Faunus yelled to the two men chasing him before jumping onto the docks.

"You no-good stowaway!" One of his pursuers yelled at the monkey faunus, who proceeded to hang upside down by his tail, and started peeling a banana.

"Hey, a no-good stowaway would have been caught, I'm a great stowaway! He shouted with pride as the 2 detectives from earlier walked up to him.

"Get down this insta-" Number 1 had started to say when he was hit in the face with a banana peel, the boy laughed and quickly swung himself up and leaped over to the end of the docks and ran off. They boy eventually ran past the team, quickly looking and giving Blake a quick wink before running off. Yang eventually spoke up.

"You wanted to see the competition Weiss, and there it goes." She said as they all turned the way the faunus had run off.

"Quick! we have to observe him!" Yelled white as she bursted down the street to find the Monkey-tailed faunus. The 4 others had just sweatdropped when Weiss had said 'observe', they all just looked at each other as Jarryd just shrugged his shoulders before they all took off to follow their teammate. The team had just gained enough ground as to be just behind the pursuing detectives when they had ran around the corner, Weiss did the same, but ran into a girl with short orange hair. Weiss looked up to see that the guilty party lept onto a nearby building. "No! They got away!" She yelled, knowing she had missed a chance to get an advantage.

"Uhh...Weiss…" Yang had said, pointing to the ground below the heiress, revealing the orange haired girl on the ground, looking up at them. Weiss let out a surprised yelp before backing up to her teammates as the girl layed on the ground.

"Salutations!" The girl yelled with as much enthusiasm as their team leader….

"Um…. hey…" Jarryd replied to the girl, who he had just noticed her clothing. She was wearing a faded-pink bow, and a gray dress with neon green lines running up it,

"Are you ok?" Yang asked with a nervous look, thinking that the girl was completely nuts for her reply after being run into.

"I'm wonderful!" the orange haired girl answered, still on the ground "Thank you for asking." she finished in an almost monotone voice. The team looked at each other with confused looks.

"Do you...you know...wanna get up?" Jarryd said, it being his turn to question the girls sanity. The girl went into thought for a moment before answering.

"Yes!" she yelled before launching herself to her feet. The group stepped back at the sudden movement. "My name is Penny, it is a pleasure to meet you!"

"Hi Penny...I'm Ruby" the leader of the team said causing the rest to follow

"I'm Weiss"

"Blake"

"It's Jarryd"

"Are you sure you didn't hit your head?" Yang said instead of her name, causing the pirate to elbow her in the side. "Oh, I'm Yang"

"It's a pleasure to meet you!" Penny repeated as she looked the team over.

"You….already said that" Jarryd replied, with a look of confusion. Realization hit the young girl.

"So I did!" She suddenly yelled, causing the team to jump back more.

"Well...sorry for running into you." Weiss apologized quickly, wanting to get as far away from the girl as possible.

"Take care friend" Ruby replied in a, well, friendly way. Jarryd then had a funny feeling in his stomach.

'I have a feeling that statement is gonna bite us in the ass in a little bit' Jarryd thought as the team began to walk away.

"She was….weird" Yang said in the silence, trying to find the right word for describing Penny. Weiss meanwhile was still looking around to see if she could find the person they were chasing beforehand.

"Where did that faunus riff-raff run off to!" She said, getting another scowl from Blake. That was when they saw Penny in front of them.

"What did you call me?" She asked as the team backed away, Yang tried to defend herself, thinking she offended the girl.

"Woah, sorry, I didn't think you heard me!"

"Not you..." Penny replied as she walked towards Ruby. "You"

'and it looks like I was right' Jarryd had thought again as Ruby looked shocked.

"Me!" The young one yelled, trying to figure out what she did wrong. "I don't know...w-what I-" Ruby tried to continue as she was cut off.

"You called me 'Friend', am I really your friend?" Penny asked as the scythe wielder tried to think of an answer, she looked to her teammates for guidance, the girls shaking their heads no and waving their arms, while Jarryd put his hand near his neck and waved it back and forth, making it look like he was trying to decapitate himself.

"Yeah sure…" Ruby replied as her entire team dropped to the ground, clearly annoyed that the leader didn't get what they were trying to say.

"Sen-sational!" Penny yelled "We can paint our nails, try on clothes, and talk about cute boys like him!" she finished as she pointed at Jarryd, causing Ruby to blush, and Jarryd to jump backwards, not knowing whether to take that as an insult or a compliment.

"Is this what it was like when you met me?" Ruby had quietly asked Weiss, blush slightly on her face from the Jarryd comment.

"No...she seems far more coordinated" Weiss answered, earning a pouty face from her leader.

"So...what're you doing in Vale?" Yang asked Penny, trying to break the ice.

"I'm gonna fight in the tournament." She replied, earning a surprised look from Weiss.

"You're gonna fight in the tournament.?" White replied, causing the girl to give Weiss a salute.

"I'm combat-ready." Penny said proudly, making Jarryd chuckle.

"I apologize, but you hardly look the part."

"Says the girl in a dress" Blake said with a laugh, Weiss only looked angrier.

"It's a combat skirt" Ruby then rushed to Weiss's defense, because she wore the same thing.

"Yeah!" Ruby said to her teammate, causing Weiss to low-five her, an action Jarryd thought was impossible.

"I think I just felt a rip in the space-time continuum" He whispered to Yang, making her nearly burst out laughing.

"Wait a minute…" The heiress started when realization hit her. "If you're here for the tournament, does that mean you know that monkey-tailed...rapscallion!?" Jarryd and Blake scowled at the word, Blake because Weiss was disrespecting the faunus, and Jarryd because that word was something he had been called many times before, because of his association with The Red Band.

"The who?" Penny replied, clearly confused as to who Weiss was talking about.

"The filthy faunus from the boat" The Schnee heiress yelled, causing Blake to speak up.

"Why do you keep saying that huh, stop calling him a rapscallion, stop calling him a degenerate, he is a person!" Blake yelled, having enough with Weiss's discrimination.

"Oh, I'm sorry, would you also like to to stop calling the trash can as a trash can, or me referring to this lamp post as a lamp post!" Weiss said, making literally no sense to the rest of the team.

"Stop It!"

"What he clearly broke the law, give him time, and he will probably join up with those other faunus and the White Fang" That was when Blake lost it.

"You...Ignorant little brat!" Black had yelled as Weiss jumped back at the rage her teammate showed before walking off.

"How dare you talk to me like that, I am your teammate" the heiress accused as Jarryd said something under his breath.

'Then act like it!' The buccaneer had thought, as he noticed Blake's bow twitch a bit.

"You are a judgemental little girl" the argument continued, going back and forth.

"I think we should probably go" Yang said to the remaining two.

"Agreed, I can't stand another minute of this…" Jarryd stated, scowling.

"Where are we going?" Penny asked from behind Ruby.

"-makes you just as much of a scoundrel as you believe him to be" They heard Blake say.

"So you admit it, the White Fang is just a group of terrorists!" Weiss replied proudly, thinking she had won the dispute.

"That is not what I meant and you know it!" Blake yelled as they suddenly back at the dorm room.

"I don't see why this is causing such a problem"

"That is the problem"

"You realize, you are defending an organization that hates humanity don't you." Weiss started, causing Ruby and Yang to look in worry, while Jarryd had a long-standing scowl on his face. "the White Fang are pure evil."

"There is no such thing as pure evil, why do you think they hate humanity, people like Cardin, like YOU that force the White Fang to take such drastic measures." Blake retorted.

"People like me!" Weiss replied, very offended.

"You're discriminatory!"

"I am a victim! you want to know why I despise the White Fang" The Heiress asked in a manner that reminded Jarryd of someone who kept saying the definition of some word. "Why I don't trust the faunus, it's because they have been at war with my family for years, and I mean actual bloodshed" She continued as the ambiance of the room had been somber. "My Grandfather's company, a target on its back for as long as I can remember, and ever since, I've watched friends disappear, board members executed, an entire train car full of dust...stolen...and everyday, my father came home furious, which gave me a very difficult childhood.

"Weiss...I-" Ruby had tried to get in, putting a hand on her shoulder, but Weiss had turned away from the contact.

"No! You want to know why I despise the White Fang...because they are a bunch of liars, thieves and Murderers!" Blake, seeing her chance to retaliate, took it.

"Well maybe we were just tired of being pushed around!" Blake yelled as every eye had widened at the words. Noticing her mistake, Blake ran out of the room, accidentally revealing her biggest secret.

"Blake wait!" Ruby yelled, attempting to run after her, but was stopped by Jarryds arm, causing the leader to look at the pirate with a worried look.

"I'll talk to her...I'll probably have the best luck." Ruby then thought for a moment, but then backed up, allowing Jarryd to go through the doorway.

"I hope you're right…" Ruby smiled at Jarryd before he jogged down the hall to catch up with his black-haired teammate. Eventually, he found her without her bow, revealing a pair of cat ears, but who she was with surprised him...the monkey faunus from the docks. He quickly hid behind a nearby tree, trying to listen in on their conversation, but a certain yell caught him off guard.

"Jarryd...I know you're there" Blake had yelled towards the tree, the swashbuckler came out of hiding, seeing the blank look on Blakes face, and the surprised face on the other faunus.

"Guess i'm not as good at stealth as I thought, Blake, what happened up there was not your fault...:" He said, trying to find the right words to say.

"Thanks Jarryd...but...I kinda half to go" Blake turned away from Jarryd as she and the other faunus.

"Wait! can I at least get the name of the guy next to you before you go...so I at least have something to work with?" Jarryd asked before the blonde faunus looked at the buccaneer and gave him a toothy smile.

"It's Sun...Sun Wukong" He said before he and Blake walked off again, making Jarryd go up to the roof to reflect on todays events.

Beacon rooftop

Jarryd had been lost in thought, thinking that todays events were like one of his own….but it had a different ending.

Flashback

The Navy had attacked once again, they had nearly overpowered the ships and boarded them, causing the pirates to defend themselves. Jarryd had been at the center of it all, fighting off wave after wave of Naval soldiers, until finally, he heard a shot, directed towards him. The pirate had turned around not to see that he himself had been shot, but someone had jumped in front of him to save his skin. Jarryd was surprised to see the person he had argued with about the Navy, his fellow crew mate, Amber. Amber had been picked up about 2 weeks ago from a sinking naval ship, she had formerly been a soldier when The Red Band decided to bring her aboard as a crew member. Amber and Jarryd always argued on the subject of the navy, Jarryd believing they were corrupt scumbags, while Amber believed that they were the heroes of the water. The fact that Amber saved Jarryd was a shock, but what happened next was even more surprising, Amber had collapsed over, dead, risking her life for her crew fellow member.

Present Time

Jarryd had seen those events re-enacted today between his teammates, Jarryd decided he had enough of the topic, walked back into the dorm room, changed into his lone set of pajamas, and fell asleep.

ANNNND DONE!

My god did that take forever, the next chapter will be probably started on saturday, which we will get to see the pirate group again. that all i have to say...Until next time